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Month: April 2015

Pope: history and service, two traits of Christian identity

(Vatican Radio) “History and service.” In his homily on Thursday morning, Pope Francis spoke about these “two traits of Christian identity.” Beginning with “history,” Pope Francis said Saint Paul, Saint Peter, and the other disciples “did not proclaim a Jesus without a history: They proclaimed Jesus in the history of the people, a people God…
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Cardinal Sandri: "Indifference and Inaction" on Middle East "a scandal"

(Vatican Radio) The centuries-old coexistence of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle East is experiencing a “true and real dismantling”, according to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. The Cardinal was speaking on Wednesday at a symposium in Bari organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, with the theme “Christians…
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Cardinal Sandri: "Indifference and Inaction" on Middle East "a scandal"

(Vatican Radio) The centuries-old coexistence of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle East is experiencing a “true and real dismantling”, according to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. The Cardinal was speaking on Wednesday at a symposium in Bari organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, with the theme “Christians…
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Cardinal Sandri: "Indifference and Inaction" on Middle East "a scandal"

(Vatican Radio) The centuries-old coexistence of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle East is experiencing a “true and real dismantling”, according to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. The Cardinal was speaking on Wednesday at a symposium in Bari organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, with the theme “Christians…
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Holy See: Work collectively for a world without nuclear arms

(Vatican Radio) The Holy See on Wednesday said the “safest and surest path” toward a future where nuclear weapons are never used is a “mutual and total renunciation” of all atomic weapons, and the “effective dismantling” of  the infrastructure on which they depend.  The Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations in…
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